Although traditionally a Catholic country, Spain saw a decline in the number of believers over the past years. Compared to 2011, when the share of believers accounted for slightly over 70 percent of the Spanish population, the Catholic community lost approximately 15 percentage points of their faithful by June 2025 with a share of 56.1 percent of the surveyed population. Believers of a religion other than Catholicism accounted for approximately 3.6 percent of the Spanish population in 2025 according to the most recent data. A Catholic majority, a practicing minority Going to mass is no longer a thing in Spain, or so it would seem when looking at the latest statistics about the matter: over 47 percent of those who consider themselves Catholics almost never attend any religious service in June 2025. The not so Catholic Spain Around 37 percent of the surveyed population stated to be either non-believers or full atheists in 2025. Non-believers or people that do not have a religious faith fluctuated over the past years with the latest figures showing a 21 percent of people that categorize themselves as so. The share of Spanish atheists is on the rise according to the most recent surveys, taking up 13.3 percent of respondents in June 2025.

The graph shows the distribution of the Jewish population or from Jewish culture in France in 2015, according to their origins. It appears that ** percent of the French Jews or from Jewish culture had Sephardic origins, whereas ** percent of them were from Ashkenazic ancestry. ** percent of Jewish persons in France had both origins.

Jewish origins

The majority of Jewish persons in France have Sephardic origins. The word Sephardic comes from Hebrew Sepharad which means "the Jews of Spain". This population was originally from the Iberian peninsula but began to emigrate in the rest of Europe, and North Africa, at the beginning of the **** century due to the Alhambra Decree by Spain's Catholic monarchy. Those expellees from Spain and Portugal arrived in France from 1492 onwards and settled in majority around the Gascony and Bordeaux. During the **** century and the decolonization process numbers of Jews from North Africa moved to France which had a strong impact on the origins of the French Jewish population.

Ashkenazic Jews are from the Jewish diaspora population who congregated in the Holy Roman Empire. Yiddish is known as their traditional language and most of them settled in Western Germany and Northern France during Charlemagne's reign. Because of various persecutions they emigrated to Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Austria and Prussia) throughout the Middle Ages. Eastern Europe will remain the center of Ashkenazi Jewry until the Holocaust. The majority of victims of the Holocaust had Ashkenazic origins.